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Prati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo, 1979

by Raul Lovisoni & Francesco Messina on Cramps Records in 1979.

The album stands as a sort of continuation and completion of the unfinished work Mount Analogue of the French writer and poet René Daumal.

 

The metaphorical novel in fact tells of a group of mountaineers who want to find out which is the higest peak in the world and set out from Paris to discover and climb it.

After having sailed on a strange route, aboard a boat called “the Impossible”, he lands on the island of Monte Analogogo which is a continent in itself, where he finds a population with strange habits and customs, descendants of the whole world and of all times that, in the same way as the protagonists, hopes to climb the summit.

After a stay in the village of Porto-delle-Scimmie, and some metaphysical considerations on moutaineering, the men face the ascension, almost arriving at the base camp.

In The wet meadows of Monte Analogo Lovisoni and Messina seem to resume from this point where the writing was interrupted to describe the top of the mountain, covered by wet meadows, and in this sense the three compositions of the album represent the atmosphere that breathe on these meadows.